ICT4EE Knowledge and Current Practices

The REViSTE project conducted a extensive review of the "state of the knowledge and practice" detailing that which is homogenous, heterogeneous and synergetic across the projects four target sectors in terms of ICT enabled Energy Efficiency. Starting point is a sector specific state of the art review. It describes individually the sector characteristics and its framework, the individual energy profile and most important the usage of RTDs in terms of ICT enabled energy efficiency. The RTDs are classified by using the REViSTE SMARTT taxonomy, which proves very useful in order to speak a common language across the sectors and to not compare apples and oranges.

In a second step REViSTE conducted a synthesis by identifying the most promising links, common themes and RTD trends between the sectors, which are mainly in the fields of:

ICT for assessment

Lifecycle thinking as an integrative approach across the sectors

No commonly means for quantifying the impact on EE of ICTs

Development of ICTs for quantitative assessment required

ICT for Design

Holistic information systems such as PLM or BIM need to be enhanced for design for EE

Feedback mechanism required in order to bring EE related knowledge back into design phase

Holistic simulation / estimation of energy uses required

ICT for automated monitoring/control and operational decision support

Sense, understand, decide, act in energy conscious way

Smart sensor networks (wired and wireless)

HEMs, BMS etc for visualisation and decision support

Intelligent energy based algorithms for automated control systems

ICT for trading

Management of energy information on macro down to micro level

Intelligent energy trading management

ICT for interoperability

Technical and semantic integration across the sectors

Protocols and standards for data exchange

Middleware for smart information network

The state of the art review concludes with themes and gaps identified as being critical to ICT enabled Energy Efficiency e.g.:

Technical interoperability & standards (Work package 3)

Importance of design for EE

Gap in clearly defined metrics/ methods for quantitative assessment

Difficulty in sustaining the casual connection between RTD themes

Importance of data visualisation and decision support particularly in "usage phase"